Friday, June 1, 2007

Essential Softwares

Softwares that you must have

1. Zone Alarm:

This is personal firewall. This will warn you when any program on your computer will try to connect Internet connection. This is important to know because if any unwanted software (Trojan virus) is installed on your pc & giving information of your system to remote computer can be detected.

2. Free Download Manager (FDM)


Often we come across problem that connection is loosed when we are about to complete it. These losses our precious time & we have to download it again. By using FDM we can pause & restart the download file from last position. The file will not corrupt.

3. Browzar:

This is a browser as like Internet Explorer just download it. The main feature of this is all “cookies” “temporary files” & all “Internet history” are deleted when you closes the window.

4. Open Office:

Most of users prefer Windows Office but you it costs abut 16k which is costly for general user. Open Office has setup file of about 95 MB & main thing is free of cost. You will see all features & look is almost like Windows Office.

5. Java Setup (For becoming Java Enabled Machine)

Most users think that I don’t know Java & I am not using it so why I should install it. But it is important because most websites have Java Applets that runs on only Java Enabled Machine. So download it & install it.

6. Antivirus:

It is important for every computer to install updated Antivirus. Most of Antivirus companies give their product for free. They are “Avira” & “Avast” for Avast you need to register your product for free upgradation.

7. Winrar & Winzip:


This software is useful for compressing the files & uncompressing files.

8. Google Pack:

Google pack is bundle of essential & free softwares for daily use.

9. PDF reader:

Any PDF file reader you can use. The most popular is Acrobat Reader.

10. Irfan View :

This is light weight picture editor for editing pictures

11. Fast Copy:

This software increases the speed of copying of data on system. Just drag the file you want to copy by right mouse button & release where you want to place & click on Total Copy Here.

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